Julian Wilson is probably pretty used to crowds. That's the funny thing about growing up in parts of Australia–if you can get this comfortable on a wave with a thousand people on it, as soon as you get an empty canvas, the painting gets that much better. Julian Wilson, Noosa, a weird little surfboard, and a whole lot of other people. But it doesn't seem to matter much to Wilson. Small waves, big crowd, and he's still ripping.


This course offers to let you: "Explore the rich history of the English folk song in this series of evening seminars at Cecil Sharp House given by the noted folk scholar Steve Roud."
It is another chance to take part in a popular introductory level series exploring the history of English folk song.
Venue: English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY.
The description of this course says: "Folk ballads are a window into an older world of magic, murder, labour and lust - the rich culture of poor people handed down through the centuries. Explore their origins, meaning and recorded interpretations. Over 7 weeks we'll explore 14 ancient folk ballads in depth. We'll look at the songs' origins, examine their lyrics' meaning, and discuss when and by whom they were first collected."


A major British bank said yesterday that it had to arrange emergency funding from the Bank of England to ensure that it had enough cash to keep operating, an announcement that sent European stock exchanges lower and reverberated on Wall Street.
The announcement that Britain's central bank had moved to bail out Northern Rock, the country's fifth-largest mortgage lender and eighth-largest bank, combined with a tepid report on August retail sales to initially deflate U.S. markets. The market rebounded by day's end, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing up 17.64 points yesterday, and 2.5 percent for the week. The Nasdaq closed up 1.12 points and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 0.30 points.
Although the amount of the emergency funding was not disclosed, the agreement between Northern Rock and the Bank of England was being described as the biggest British bank bailout in more than a quarter of a century. As word of the arrangement spread, lines formed outside of some Northern Rock branches as customers withdrew deposits, wire services reported.
Northern Rock said that global credit markets have been so tight that it has been unable to raise the money it needs to make new home loans and repay debts that are coming due.
"We are seeing extreme conditions in global liquidity," Northern Rock chief executive Adam J. Applegarth said in a news release. The company expected those conditions to "continue for some time," the release said. "In light of the above, Northern Rock has concluded that it is important to ensure that additional standby liquidity arrangements are available."
The announcement helped drag down London's FTSE 100 by more than 2 percent at one point and also pushed other European exchanges lower.
Along with the trouble in London, investors were looking at weaker-than-expected U.S. retail sales in August. The latest government data showed that consumer spending rose 0.3 percent last month, a result buoyed by a jump in auto purchases. Car sales often spike near the end of the summer as dealers push to make way for new models. Excluding auto sales, retail spending fell 0.4 percent, disappointing predictions of a modest increase.
Problems in the U.S. home mortgage market, where default rates have reached a record following a period of loose lending to buyers with suspect credit, have prompted thousands of layoffs in the industry and led to substantial losses at hedge funds and other financial firms with investments linked to mortgages.
The effects have been felt more broadly as investors worldwide have become less willing to provide money to lend, wary of investing in the bonds and other forms of debt that corporations use to fund operations and buyout firms use to underwrite deals.
Northern Rock's announcement showed just how far the credit crunch extends. The bank only makes prime loans, those to creditworthy borrowers, is financially strong, and reported that the number of overdue loans on its books is less than half the industry average.
But "the global credit and liquidity markets have not recovered in the early part of September," the company said. "There continues to be a severe liquidity squeeze."
The company said it was being charged a "penalty rate" by the Bank of England for the emergency funds, but did not release details.
In contrast to the U.S. Federal Reserve and some other central banks, the Bank of England has taken a more hands-off approach to the global credit squeeze, moving more cautiously to funnel extra cash into the system, concerned about coming to the rescue of banks or investors who got into trouble because of loose-lending practices.
Following the announced rescue of Northern Rock, however, British banking regulators made clear they would stand behind the country's banking system to ensure its stability.
"Northern Rock is solvent . . . and has a good quality loan book" and warranted assistance, the country's Financial Services Authority said in a statement.
"We are determined to ensure that we have a stable and strong banking system," Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling told BBC Radio, Bloomberg News reported.


Each season, Kansas City Fashion Week partners up with a local charity. We see this as an opportunity to give back to the community that is so heavily involved with making our shows a success.
Over the years, KCFW has been able to donate over $20,000 to local charities. Beyond that, we volunteer our time and efforts across other events across the city that all help non profits.
This season KCFW is very proud to support the launch of a new non-profit, Kansas City Fashion Council, Inc. (KCFC.) KCFC's main goal is to grow and connect the fashion community and share resources through events that promote the growing Kansas City fashion industry as a whole.
KCFC will continuously host fashion industry business training and development workshops, industry education, and networking to all students and professionals within the industry, including fashion/accessory designers, models, photographers, hair stylists, make-up artists, retail business owners and buyers.
We're very excited to lend our support for this group of individuals that are working so hard to be a resource to all in KC's fashion industry.


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FIFTH GEAR: Ontario goes nuclear this weekend
By Louis Brewster | brewspts@gmail.com |
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 10:30 a.m.
1 Freestyle motocross makes its debut at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario over the weekend with the question being will the Nuclear Cowboyz hit the ceiling.
The two-hour show, which plays Friday and Saturday nights beginning at 7:30, brings together one of the greatest casts from the industry. The riders, which include Adam Jones, Mike Mason, Nate Adams, Jeremy "Twitch" Stenberg, Jimmy Fitzpatrick, Derek Garland, Todd Potter, Wes Agee and Ronnie Faisst, perform synchronized tricks against a post-apocalyptic backdrop and hard rock music.
If that wasn't enough, the indoor pyrotechnics certainly will get the crowd's attention. …
Perris Auto Club Speedway will host the "North vs. South Street Stock Challenge," pitting entries from Victorville Auto and Perris Auto Club speedways. In addition to Street Stocks, the card will feature Modifieds, Sport Mods and Factory Stocks.
The four-race series, split even between the Perris circuit and the High Desert track, offers a $1,000 bonus to the driver with the most points.
"We hope this stimulates a lot of interest for the drivers and the fans," Perris promoter Don Kazarian said. "Together with Mike Gibson (Victorville promoter), we standardized our rules so the stock cars from each class can race at both tracks with no modifications.
"In years gone by, there were differences in the rules. Hopefully this will increase the car counts and the size of the crowds."
2 It was very disappointing to learn last week that Glen Helen Raceway, with its signature 400-foot high Mt. St. Helen, will not host an AMA national motocross event as originally scheduled.
While neither side was specific as to why the event – which has drawn close to 25,000 in past years to the hillside – has been canceled, it certainly involves some type of financial consideration. Could it be the golden goose is cooked?
MX Sports Pro Racing, which promotes the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, has indicated it plans to race in Southern California on Sept. 11 as a replacement date. However, there was no site listed on its 2010 schedule.
Could it be there's not another venue that can host such an event? Could Glen Helen be back in the picture?
Back in the day, shifting the national outdoor meet would have been easy with alternate sites such as DeAnza, Saddleback, Indian Dunes and Carlsbad, all with challenging courses. Modern development has wiped those tracks out, leaving Lake Elsinore, Perris and Pala as possible replacements.
But what can replace Mt. St. Helen? Glen Helen owner Bud Feldkamp took advantage of the terrain and sent the motorcycles up a steep hillside that offered a commanding view of the San Bernardino Valley. It was great for spectators that worked past rattlesnakes for the prime spot, but riders had to overcome their initial fears when roaring down the mountain.
"This was a difficult decision, but ultimately we simply were not able to come to contractual terms with Glen Helen Raceway," said Davey Coombs, vice president of MX Sports Pro Racing.
Glen Helen wanted to be treated equally with the other tracks on the MX schedule.
All is not lost, however. In addition to the World GP it announced Wednesday, the track will continue to host its annual pre-national meet on May 16.
The 23rd MTA World MX Championship, with a $25,000 purse, will be held on the same course that made Glen Helen's reputation.
3 P.T. Barnum is alive and well and doing business these days as Eddie Gossage, president of Texas Motor Speedway.
Now that Humpy Wheeler is out of the motorsports promotion business, Gossage has shot to the top. His latest challenge will cost him $100,000, but generate at least twice as much in exposure for his track.
Terry Dorsey, host of a popular morning radio show on a country station covering the Dallas/Fort Worth market, announced Wednesday he would accept Gossage's offer to legally change his name to TexasMotorSpeedway.com for a year, complete with a permanent tattoo, in exchange for $100,000.
"It was my wife who convinced me to do it," said Dorsey, a member of the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame and the 2009 Academy of Country Music's Disc Jockey of the Year. "She said for the money Eddie was offering, it was something we couldn't pass up."
Dorsey, perhaps wanting to get it over with, headed to the Tarrant County courthouse after his show to expedite the process.
"After looking at all the comments on Facebook and news stories, there apparently were a lot less expensive deals out there for me to pursue," Gossage said. "Well, I may have pushed this one a bit too far, but it's time to man up."
If all the conditions are met, Gossage will hand over the check during pre-race festivities for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Samsung Mobile 500 on April 18.
4 Certainly Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president of competition, didn't realize what his ad-libbed line of "Boys, have at it," would generate. It's brought back the personality of the sport.
Perhaps now that drivers understand the sanctioning body will hold firm on its word of not policing conduct, they certainly are having at it.
First, there was Carl Edwards' highly public payback of Brad Keselowski in Atlanta; subsequent fallout between Kevin Harvick and Edwards; Johnny Sauter confronting Ron Hornaday after a truck race in Martinsville; and a renewal of a supposedly dormant feud between Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth.
Gordon and Kenseth generally are viewed as nicer guys. Their first dust-up was in Bristol in 2006, when Gordon accosted Kenseth on pit road and shoved him in the chest after being spun out.
Months later at Chicago, Gordon returned the favor by spinning Kenseth en route to the win.
They went at it Monday in Martinsville, with the race in the balance. Kenseth bumped Gordon out of the way and Gordon then took Kenseth out, all on the same lap.
"We've had our run-ins and different things, but I feel like we've been past that," Gordon said. "I certainly didn't feel like we had any issues."
Just hard racing, Kenseth said.
"I did get into Jeff a little bit, really not that hard, and I got under him and everything was fine, and he just took a left as hard as he could take one and ran me down all the way into the marbles," Kenseth said. "Jeff is sneaky. He's good at that stuff. He comes away squeaky-clean all the time.
"That's about the third time he took me out of a top-three finish. I'm about tired of that."
Gordon didn't hold back on his thoughts.
"I made sure he didn't win the race. The way he raced me today I didn't think was the way I would have raced him," he said. "If somebody hits me, I'm going to hit them. If a guy gives you a cheap shot like that, he doesn't deserve to win the race."
5 John Force emerged from the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Concord, N.C., a double winner. Not only did he finish first in the Funny Car competition, he also signed a five-year extension with Ford.
"The deal with Ford made me know all of the work in the gym, eating right, taking out the party life, that I changed all of that and I can still compete," said Force, a two-time winner in 2010. "It makes me wonder if they let me stay in the game because they felt they owed me, but nobody owes me anything as long as I can deliver and I was able to do that so far this year."
The wins at Pomona and Concord were the first since his near-fatal accident in 2008 in Texas.
"I am 60 years old and I intend to race until I am 65 or better, if I can do it," Force said in a Wednesday conference call. "It is all about motivating yourself, when you have days that you are down to just fight it. I want (daughter) Ashley to see me this way and (son-in-law and John Force Racing teammate) Robert (Hight) to see me this way and prove that I could come back, so that if it ever happened to them they would know that if you want it bad enough you can."
Force said the jury still is out on the four-wide concept.
"For me, I couldn't vote right now because I want to hear what the jury says. I do know this, Bruton Smith has invested in it and NHRA gave him the shot and what I look at, does the four lane need to continue? Yes," he said.
Louis Brewster | Columnist
Lou Brewster is a nationally recognized motorsports journalist who has staffed NASCAR and NHRA events since 1969. Has also staffed high school football, in five different states, since 1967. Has won several national awards in writing and breaking news.
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The Amazon Prime Video app comes to Mac
If you are a Mac user and an Amazon Prime subscriber, you may not have found out yet that the Amazon Prime Video app, video-on-demand service from the shopping giant included in your package premium, is now available for your platform.
Thus, the Amazon Prime Video app for PC extends to a new system, after last year it made its debut for Windows 10. In the Apple ecosystem, however, it was already available for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, which perhaps tells you where the shots are going and the limitations of the application's support.
Indeed, the new Amazon Prime Video app for Mac requires macOS 11.4 or later or, what is the same, macOS Big Sur onwards, which leaves many of the users of the block out of the game. What does not seem to be clear is whether it also requires one of the new Apple computers with the M1 chips, and that is that some comments suggest.
This would be an almost direct port of the Amazon Prime Video app for iPad, also judging by the comments of those who have tried it, but nothing is specified about it in the App Store. In any case, the application has reached the last Apple platform in which it had no presence.
This is what the Amazon Prime Video app for Mac looks like | Image: The Verge
For the rest, the Amazon Prime Video app for Mac is what you expect, which in turn is like saying that it is the same as what we already saw for Windows: an access to the VOD service encapsulated in the form of a native application, with all the options of the web application, including the possibility of buying or renting content, picture-in-picture (PiP) mode, various profiles, etc.
However, the most striking option of the Amazon Prime Video app for PC, putting both Windows and Mac in this bag, is the one that allows download content to enjoy offline, just like in the Amazon Prime Video mobile app.
The Amazon Prime Video app for Mac released its version 1.0 last week and this has received its first update with corrections, so it is a good time to give it a try, if you haven't already done so and prefer the experience of using one. independent application to the web browser.
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JUDGE TO RULE FRIDAY ON RELEASE OF PAPERS
By JOHN M. MORAN; Courant Staff Writer
A Hartford Superior Court judge plans to rule Friday on whether The Courant and the state Freedom of Information Commission can intervene in a dispute over documents relating to the firing of Robert J. O'Connell, former chief executive of MassMutual Financial Group.
Judge Kevin E. Booth also scheduled a hearing Aug. 19 on whether Springfield-based MassMutual can block Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal from releasing the documents, which formed the basis for the company's decision to fire O'Connell in June.
Debate over the documents moved into the courts last month when MassMutual sued Blumenthal, who said he planned to release them to The Courant in response to a Freedom of Information request.
MassMutual has said the documents are confidential company reports that led to O'Connell's firing for alleged abuse of power and "gross misconduct."
The Courant and the state Freedom of Information Commission have argued that the decision over whether to release the documents belongs to Blumenthal.
Booth last month issued a temporary restraining order barring Blumenthal from releasing the documents until the dispute can be heard by the court. Booth said Monday the restraining order would remain in place, at least temporarily, since the documents' release would undercut the point of the Aug. 19 hearing.


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Nightwish, Arch Enemy and Amorphis live at The SSE Arena Wembley on December 19th, 2015
Nightwish performed their last night of their European 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' tour, and only UK date, to a sold out show at The SSE Arena Wembley...
by Denys December 23, 2015
Words by: Robert Sutton
Images by: Robert Sutton Photography (Facebook)
Nightwish performed their last night of their European 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' tour, and only UK date, to a sold out show at The SSE Arena Wembley on the 19th December. They are the first ever Finnish band to headline at this iconic arena and the event featured the bands full stage show production.
Support for the night was from Amorphis and Arch Enemy.
Amorphis are a six piece Finish death metal band (who also plays heavy metal, progressive and folk metal songs). They have just released their twelfth studio album 'Under the Red Cloud' and embraced this opportunity to spread the word about themselves and their new album to this full to capacity Wembley audience. By the time that their short opening set was completed I am sure that they did have a few more fans in the audience.
http://www.amorphis.net
Arch Enemy, The Swedish melodic death metal band replaced their singer in 2014 , with Canadian Alissa White-Gluz and this was the first time that I had seen the band with their new singer and to see whether she was up to the challenge of filling her predecessors shoes..I have to say she was more than up to the job and gave an absolutely blinding performance, with her death metal growls and head banging blue hair, she owned the stage and the audience really appreciated not only her but also the rest of the bands performance. From this performance Nightwish would need to pull something special out of the bag for their performance.
http://www.archenemy.net
Nightwish is the most successful Finish band worldwide and were promoting their new album 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful, their first album to feature Floor Jansen on vocals who joined the band full time in 2013 as a replacement for Anette Olzon.
They opened the evening's performance with 'Shudder before the Beautiful' from their new album and opened it with a super four section back screen and a full set of pyrotechnics, not only at the front of the stage but also at the back and from the lighting rig gantry. It was clear from the start that, yes, this was going to be something special and boy we were not to be disappointed throughout the whole evening's performance.
The band then went on to play 'Yours Is an Empty Hope' also from the new album and also with lots of pyro, before then going back to their eighth single release from 2002, 'Ever Dream'.
About two-thirds of the way through their performance they played one of the fans favorite tracks 'Nemo' from their 2004 album 'Once' and then another crowd pleaser 'I want my tears back' from the 'Imaginaerum' album.
They played a strong seventeen song setlist and the vocals from Floor throughout the range and all evening long were absolutely superb, with her giving a performance that just about any other singer in the world should be envious of.
Special guest narration was performed by Professor Richard Dawkins and he finished the night off with the narration at the end of 'The Greatest Show on Earth'.
To sum up the evening's performance from Nightwish, I think I would have to say fantastic vocals, with a great stage production comprising of pyrotechnics, pyrotechnics and more pyrotechnics…and with credit to both the support bands as well, who did a super job and gave us all a great night of entertainment to remember.
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1: Shudder before the Beautiful
2: Yours Is an Empty Hope
3: Ever Dream
4: Storytime
5: My Walden
6: While your lips are still red
7: Élan
8: Weak Fantasy
9: 7 Days to the Wolves
10: Alpenglow
11: The Poet and the Pendulum
12: Nemo
13: I want my tears back
14: Stargazers
15: Ghost Love Score
16: Last Ride of the Day
17: The Greatest Show on Earth
Nightwish's new album 'Endless Forms Most Beautiful' is available to buy now.
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The Waning Moon Phase is the perfect time to let go, slow down and take a break from everything that brings us pain. It is a time to focus on the things that you don't want to grow. The waning moon is a time to cleanse all unwanted old things and prepare for a new beginning.
The best colors of candles to be used during this phase include; Black, Blue, Purple, Grey, Silver, and White. There are some crystals that are very powerful during the Waning Moon Phase. They include; Citrine, Clear Quartz and the Bloodstone.
Below are some rituals that can be performed when the Moon is in its Waning Phase.
Make a list of all the things you wish to banish from your life.
Read through your list and focus your intention on banishing those things listed.
Light the paper on fire then drop it into the bowl.
As the paper burns, imagine that all the negativities are leaving your life.
Meditate strongly on your intention for some minutes.
After everything has burnt, take the ashes and bury them in the ground.
1 dark green candle or a golden candle.
A pinch or a handful of sea salt.
Patchouli or orange incense (If you cannot get these incense fragrances, you can burn a small charcoal and put small pieces of dehydrated orange peels on the hot red charcoal).
Light the incense before starting the ritual.
Hold the candle in your hand, and while looking at the waning moon, meditate on your intention.
Imagine that money has come to you in abundance and send your thoughts to the moon Goddess.
Light the candle with wooden matches and place it in a candle holder close to the glass of water.
Pour a pinch of salt into the glass of water.
With each currency that I introduce I give the best of me. By the power of light and the golden color, I summon those who know that I deserve prosperity. Let wealth come to me! I promise to be committed to using it for good. I ask this in harmony for everyone, under Divine grace and in a perfect way. So be it.
At the end of the ritual, turn off the candle but don't blow it out. Leave the glass of water with the seven coins for seven nights then you can repeat the ritual again.
Place the two candles together. Light each of them and make a circle of rosemary.
Repeat those lines while completing the circle.
"May this salt protect me and cleanse me of all evil that wants to stalk me." You repeat it while you complete the circle.
Allow the candles to burn completely then discard the remnants far away from home. For the garlic cloves, place each in a hidden spot in the house. Remember to change them every year to maintain protection.
To enhance your self-reflection and awareness, you will need to prepare the Waning Moon oil recipe.
Mix the oil together then you can either burn it or add it to a base oil such as grapeseed oil or sweet almond oil. After blending, you can add the mixture to your bath water or find out from your supplier if the oil can be used on the skin or inhaled.
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Seven collections at the UAMN have taken advantage of the sophisticated object tracking abilities in Arctos, which are as-yet unavailable in other commercial and freeware collections management systems. This provides us with an established system at UAMN that has been fine-tuned over a decade of use. The object tracking feature uses barcodes, a string of unique characters that are machine readable by barcode readers. The barcodes are attached to all objects; from rooms, cases, specimen trays and down to the object label itself. Arctos then creates a hierarchical map of an object's physical location starting with the place in the building down to the position in the tray making it easy to pinpoint the exact location of an object.
Through a successful implementation of this project, the object tracking reliability will be greatly improved, and the work done by our staff and students will be more efficient and with less margin for error. When researchers and visitors request to examine items in these collections, staff will more reliably pinpoint their exact location. Objects examined can be quickly entered into a loan record using the barcode, which allows us to more effectively track object usage.
The project budget will cover the purchase of the equipment for printing barcode labels, scanners, and salary for students and the Arctos programmer to assist in the implementation of the project.


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package com.example.denis.ecar.sharedPref;

import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.example.denis.ecar.R;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnCompleteListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.OnFailureListener;
import com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task;
import com.google.firebase.auth.AuthCredential;
import com.google.firebase.auth.EmailAuthProvider;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseAuth;
import com.google.firebase.auth.FirebaseUser;
import com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseError;
import com.google.firebase.database.ValueEventListener;

public class UpdateLoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements ValueEventListener {

    private FirebaseAuth firebaseAuth;
    private User user;
    private String passwort;

    private EditText mail;
    private Button bttnSubmit;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_update_login);

        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        firebaseAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();

        user = new User();
        user.setId(firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser().getUid());
        user.contextDataDB(this);

        mail = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etEmail);
        bttnSubmit = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bttnSubmit);

        bttnSubmit.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                update();
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Startet ein AlertDialog, in dem das Passwort eingegeben muss, um die Aenderung zu bestaetigen.
     */
    private void update() {
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        View pwView = (LayoutInflater.from(this)).inflate(R.layout.input_pw, null);
        builder.setTitle(R.string.confirmChange).setView(pwView);
        final Dialog dialog = builder.create();
        final EditText pw = (EditText)pwView.findViewById(R.id.etPassword);

        pwView.findViewById(R.id.bttnSubmit).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (!(pw.getText().toString()).isEmpty() && pw.getText().toString().length() > 5) {
                    FirebaseUser firebaseUser = firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser();
                    if (firebaseUser == null) {
                        return;
                    }
                    passwort = pw.getText().toString();
                    user.setPassword(passwort);
                    reauthenticate();
                    dialog.dismiss();
                } else {
                    showToast("Bitte gib dein neues Passwort ein.");
                }
            }
        });
        pwView.findViewById(R.id.bttnCancel).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                dialog.cancel();
            }
        });
        dialog.show();
    }

    /**
     * Aktualisiert den Login-Token mit der neuen E-Mail-Adresse.
     */
    private void reauthenticate(){
        FirebaseUser firebaseUser = firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser();

        if( firebaseUser == null ){
            return;
        }
        AuthCredential credential = EmailAuthProvider.getCredential(user.getEmail(),
                user.getPassword());
        firebaseUser.reauthenticate(credential)
                .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Void>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Void> task) {
                        if( task.isSuccessful() ){
                            updateData();
                        }
                    }
                })
                .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                        showToast(e.getMessage());
                    }
                });
    }

    /**
     * Aktualisiert die E-Mail-Adresse in der Firebase DB und Auth.
     */
    private void updateData(){
        FirebaseUser firebaseUser = firebaseAuth.getCurrentUser();
        if( firebaseUser == null ){
            return;
        }
        firebaseUser.updateEmail(mail.getText().toString())
                .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<Void>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<Void> task) {
                        if(task.isSuccessful()){
                            user.setEmail(mail.getText().toString());
                            user.updateDB();
                            showToast("E-Mail-Adresse aktualisiert.");
                            finish();
                        }
                    }
                })
                .addOnFailureListener(this, new OnFailureListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception e) {
                        showToast(e.getMessage());
                    }
                });
    }

    private void showToast(String message) {
        Toast.makeText(UpdateLoginActivity.this, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    @Override
    public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
        User u = dataSnapshot.getValue( User.class );
        user.setEmail(u.getEmail());
    }

    @Override
    public void onCancelled(DatabaseError firebaseError) {
        Toast.makeText(this, firebaseError.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        init();
    }
}


The spirit of competition comes alive in our Showstopper Show Shirt. Performance jacquard fabric gives it a luxurious look and feel. The extended button placket's longer line helps create a more flattering silhouette.


How can an entire city be built with the road system under ground?
Each district / skyscraper could be built independently. The roads could be standalone, possibly with low buildings on parts of the top. This would both reduce the load on the tunnel roof as well as let light down to the street. The pedestrian roads ought to be wide and strong enough to carry emergency vehicles. By doing this there is nothing that would stop such a city from being equally resistant to emergencies as downtown Denver or New York.
The underground road network would have to be as wide as a normal set of double or triple laned roads, but this would normally not be desirable for the pedestrian streets above. The buildings above ground level can consequently be pulled together, so that one facade rests on the mid-columns of the road below.
To simplify maintenance water and electricity should have their own "roads", that is instead of digging pipes and power lines into the ground this infrastructure should have its own tunnels.


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from tropo.base import Resource, SubResource

class StorageAccount(Resource):
    """Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts

    Args:
        name (str): The name of the resource
        location (str): The location of the resource
        description (str): a description of the resource
        tags: ({str}): a dictionary of tags
        dependsOn: ([]): a list of resources
        sku (Sku):  Required. Gets or sets the sku type.
        kind (str):  Required. Indicates the type of storage account. Possible values include:
            'Storage', 'BlobStorage'
        customDomain (CustomDomain):  User domain assigned to the storage account. Name is the CNAME source. Only one
            custom domain is supported per storage account at this time. To
            clear the existing custom domain, use an empty string for the custom
            domain name property.
        encryption (Encryption):  Provides the encryption settings on the account. If left unspecified the account
            encryption settings will remain. The default setting is unencrypted.
        accessTier (str):  Required for StandardBlob accounts. The access tier used for billing. Access
            tier cannot be changed more than once every 7 days (168 hours).
            Access tier cannot be set for StandardLRS, StandardGRS,
            StandardRAGRS, or PremiumLRS account types. Possible values include:
            'Hot', 'Cool'

    """

    type = 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts'
    apiVersion = '2016-01-01'

    _attribute_map = {
        'apiVersion': {'key': 'apiVersion', 'type': 'str'},
        'type': {'key': 'type', 'type': 'str'},
        'name': {'key': 'name', 'type': 'str'},
        'description': {'key': 'description', 'type': 'str'},
        'location': {'key': 'location', 'type': 'str'},
        'description': {'key': 'description', 'type': 'str'},
        'tags': {'key': 'tags', 'type': 'str'},
        'dependsOn': {'key': 'dependsOn', 'type': '[str]'},
        'sku': {'key': 'sku', 'type': 'Sku', 'required': True},
        'kind': {'key': 'kind', 'type': 'str', 'required': True},
        'customDomain': {'key': 'properties.customDomain', 'type': 'CustomDomain'},
        'encryption': {'key': 'properties.encryption', 'type': 'Encryption'},
        'accessTier': {'key': 'properties.accessTier', 'type': 'str'}
    }

    def __init__(self, name, location=None, description=None, tags=None, dependsOn=None, sku=None, kind=None, customDomain=None, encryption=None, accessTier=None):
        self.name = name
        if location is None:
            location = '[resourceGroup().location]'
        self.location = location
        self.description = description
        self.tags = tags
        self.dependsOn = dependsOn
        self.sku = sku
        self.kind = kind
        self.customDomain = customDomain
        self.encryption = encryption
        self.accessTier = accessTier

class Sku(SubResource):
    """The SKU of the storage account.

    Args:
        name (str):  Gets or sets the sku name. Required for account creation, optional for update.
            Note that in older versions, sku name was called accountType.
            Possible values include: 'Standard_LRS', 'Standard_GRS',
            'Standard_RAGRS', 'Standard_ZRS', 'Premium_LRS'

    """

    _attribute_map = {
        'name': {'key': 'name', 'type': 'str', 'required': True}
    }

    def __init__(self, name=None):
        self.name = name

class CustomDomain(SubResource):
    """The custom domain assigned to this storage account. This can be set via Update.

    Args:
        name (str):  Gets or sets the custom domain name. Name is the CNAME source.
        useSubDomain (bool):  Indicates whether indirect CName validation is enabled. Default value is false.
            This should only be set on updates

    """

    _attribute_map = {
        'name': {'key': 'name', 'type': 'str', 'required': True},
        'useSubDomain': {'key': 'useSubDomain', 'type': 'bool'}
    }

    def __init__(self, name=None, useSubDomain=None):
        self.name = name
        self.useSubDomain = useSubDomain


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Parks › Hawaii › Haleakala › Visitor Information
Park Entrance
Haleakalā National Park extends from the Kīpahulu coastline, on the southeastern side of the volcano, up to its 10,023 foot (3,055 m) summit. The two sections of the park are not connected via roadway, however, both areas can be approached from Kahului. The summit is a three-hour drive round-trip from Kahului and can be reached via Highway 37 to 377 to 378. The Kīpahulu area can be reached from Kahului via Highway 36 to 360 to 31 and will take about three to four hours each way. Highway 31 continues around the dry side of the island toward Kaupō, however, the road is currently closed due to earthquake damage. It is not known when it will re-open.
The park is open 24 hours a day, year-round including holidays. For general park information, call (808) 572-4400 or stop at Park Headquarters Visitor Center, the Haleakalā Visitor Center or the Kīpahulu Visitor Center. Park information is also available on the website: www.nps.gov/hale.
Note: No food or gas is available in the park.
Your entrance permit is good for three consecutive days. This entrance fee is $10 per vehicle and $5 per hiker, bicyclist or motorcyclist over 16 and under 62. A Tri-Park Pass is available for $20 and allows entrance into Haleakalā , Hawai'i Volcanoes and Pu'uhonua o Honaunau for 12 months from date of purchase. The 12-month America the Beautiful—National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass ($80), is valid here and also for all national parks, national recreation areas, national wildlife refuges and all Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management sites. An Access Pass (free to U.S. citizens or residents with permanent disabilities) or a lifetime Senior Pass ($10 one-time fee to U.S. citizens or residents age 62 or older) also permits entry into Haleakalā.
Park Headquarters Visitor Center is located one mile from the park entrance at 7,000 feet (2,134 m), and is open year-round from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rest-rooms, a public telephone, a picnic area and a Hawai'i Natural History Association sales shop are located here. Permits for backcountry camping and cabins can be obtained from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Haleakalā Visitor Center is located near the summit of Haleakalā at 9,700 feet (2,957 m), 10 miles from the entrance off the park road. It is open year-round, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the summer, and 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the winter. There are interpretive exhibits on the nature, geology and culture of Haleakalā.
Kīpahulu Visitor Center, located off of Highway 31 on the Kīpahulu coast near the pools of 'Ohe'o, is open year-round from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Interpretive exhibits feature the nature and culture of the Kīpahulu area. There are restrooms, a public telephone, picnic tables and drive-in campgrounds available. Permits for backcountry camping can also be obtained here.
Park trails are currently unpaved and are not suitable for wheelchair use.
Weather at the summit of Haleakalā is unpredictable. Temperatures can vary, 30—50°F, but the windchill factor can carry it below freezing at any time of year. Weather can change rapidly from intense sunlight, to thick clouds, to heavy rains and high winds reaching 25—100 miles per hour.
Kīpahulu weather is tropical with occasional light rain showers. Please heed safety signs and "no swimming" signs to familiarize yourself with local conditions that could indicate a flash flood. You are responsible for your own safety. For the weather forecast, call (808) 877-5111.
Sunrise and sunset at Haleakalā are both amazing events. Arrive at least a half-hour before each to watch the colors change. A flashlight will come in handy and warm clothing is a must! Sunrise can be seen from Leleiwi, Kalahaku and the summit overlooks, and from the Haleakalā Visitor Center. Good sunset locations include the Halemau'u Trail and the summit.
Park Regulations
The park regulations are for your safety and enjoyment, as well as for the protection of Haleakalā National Park. Please take the time to become familiar with park guidelines that visitors receive at entrance stations, or that can be obtained them at the visitor centers.
Park Campgrounds
There are two campgrounds in the park that don't require permits: Hosmer Grove and Kīpahulu campground.


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Watson expands in southeast Asia with Ascent buy
Watson Pharmaceuticals has acquired Ascent Pharmahealth, the Australian and southeast Asia generics business of India's Strides Arcolab for A$375 million (about $393 million) in cash.
The purchase will make Watson the fifth largest generics company in Australia and the second largest in terms of total molecules. It also becomes the biggest generics player in Singapore and gains an established commercial base in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Thailand.
Ascent sells branded and non-branded-generics, plus over-the-counter and dermatology and skin care products in Australia, where it has a 14% market share. It employs 300 employees in the latter and southeast Asia. and had sales of A$150 million in 2011.
Watson chief executive Paul Bisaro said the firm has been looking to expand into "geographies where we can capitalise on our existing assets and participate in growing and emerging markets". The acquisition "immediately establishes Watson among the leaders in the A$12 billion Australian pharmaceutical market", he said, where generics are growing at 8%, and complements its existing presence in the country.
Watson currently operates in Australian through its Spirit Pharmaceuticals and Willow Pharmaceuticals subsidiaries. During 2010, the company established the Watson Pharma Co to consolidate its position there.
The Ascent purchase "catapults us to a top five position that would have taken considerable time and investment to build organically", Mr Bisaro said. He added that "it also provides us with a leadership position in southeast Asia, a region with more than 600 million consumers and overall annual generic sales of A$4 billion a year".
Arun Kumar, Strides Arcolab's chief executive, said the deal will help his firm "focus on our highly attractive steriles segment, which we expect to be our growth engine going forward". He added that the proceeds from the transaction "considerably strengthen our balance sheet".
http://www.watson.com
http://www.stridesarco.com
http://www.ascentpharmahealth.com


Before entering Tamara's studio, and from there the debauched social whirl surrounding it, Rafaela and her (platonic) girlfriend Gin survive by agreeing to be kept by a series of rich, adulterous paramours in exchange for an apartment, pretty dresses, and pocket money. These arrangements are already coming undone at the beginning of the story when she meets the stylish, high-society Tamara, who, in a historically plausible scenario, is cruising for girls in the Bois de Boulogne on the pretense of walking the family greyhound. It's not much of a family. Monsieur de Lempicka is in Warsaw, and their daughter is left with her grandmother all day ostensibly so Tamara can work. After modeling once, Rafaela, short on money, is obliged to a sorry episode of prostitution, thus prompting her to overcome her unease in posing for Tamara.
Soon she has moved into the role of muse and lover. As a 17-year-old American and the child of a suffocating family of Italian tailors, she is, despite her various means of survival, as innocent as fresh linens. Her initiation into personhood takes place at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, run by (the real-life) Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, who are patient with her gaffes ("What's Vermeer like?- she asks Sylvia, thinking him to belong to the circle of James Joyce) and encouraging of her talents as a fashion designer. By dint of keeping her ears open at the bookstore, Rafaela can list every famous lesbian couple in Paris.


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The Big Idea: James Swallow
Posted on December 15, 2009 Posted by John Scalzi 26 Comments
As the proprietor of The Big Idea, every once in a while I get to pull rank and pop up a book that's of personal interest to me, and here's one that is: Air, by James Swallow, which is an adaptation and novelization of the first three episodes of Stargate: Universe, which is, of course, the TV show I am the Creative Consultant on.
Science fiction writers and readers have varying opinions on novelizations and what they mean in the genre, but leaving aside that discussion, I think one thing that's often overlooked in the discussion is the professionalism of the people doing the novelizations: Here are folks who have to take a script, bump it up to novel length, get it done usually in a short amount of time — and get it right. Yes, that's work.
In the case of Air, it was brought to my attention when James contacted me during his writing, asking me questions about the show so that what ends up in the TV series is also what ends up in the novel — basically, doing the behind-the-scenes legwork and research that often gets taken for granted by readers (and sometimes, other writers).
I was happy to help him then, and right now, I'm happy to give him the floor to tell you a little more about what it takes to adapt and expand a script into novel form.
JAMES SWALLOW:
"I guess it's not like you had to do a lot of work, really," said the guy at the bookseller's table, with a sniff. 'I mean, it was pretty much all done for you already, yeah?"
Uh, no.
No, not at all, actually. See, when I was hired on by Fandemonium Books to adapt 'Air', the first three episodes of the new television series Stargate Universe, what they asked me to deliver was a novel. That's why they call it a novelization. Your standard sixty minute teleplay script? You're looking at under ten thousand words, right there. I had three of 'em, and I had to turn that into a book that deserved an eight buck cover price. I had to take what I had and, at the very least, expand it to three times its size. And not in the whipped butter kind of way, where they froth it up and pump air into it. No. I had to do it with words and prose and narrative, pitch and moment and drama – and all without breaking the story that had already been created.
I had to fill Air with, well, stuff that wasn't just air. This is a bit about how I did it.
Air wasn't my first novelization – I adapted The Butterfly Effect a few years back, getting to put back a lot of the stuff that had been cut in order to get Ashton Kutchner on screen as early as possible. That was a fun experience for me, memorable as it not only introduced my writing to a whole new demographic – teenage high school girls – but because it also got me more fan mail than anything I'd written before. A lot of it was from people asking me how I felt about the movie they had made of my novel.
The way I made Butterfly Effect and now Air work for me was linked to the way that I write. I see my stories unfold in my head like a feature film, and when I'm making notes I use script shorthand to set scenes; I try to write the prose equivalent of whip pans or contra-zooms, wide shots and medium shots. In short, I'm directing it in my head. I took this approach with Air, imagining myself doing the job that episode director Andy Mikita did in the real world – which is a lot more than just adding 'he said' and 'she said' to the end of Brad Wright's and Robert C. Cooper's dialogue.
In some ways I lucked out, because SGU's producer Joe Mallozzi had a blog full of images from the show in production and of the actors they had cast, so I knew how Air was going to look and what the voices of the people in it would be. But then I was also up against the knowledge that I didn't know everything about these characters, so I couldn't lay in nuances and subtle clues that would pay off down the line, and anything new I brought to the party ran the risk of being utterly contradicted by the ongoing show.
And I didn't have was any opportunity to see the finished cut and edit of the episodes until several weeks after the manuscript had been delivered. While I worked from the three episodic scripts that made up the pilot, I was a good way through the writing before I discovered the drafts I had were months old, with key details that differed from the final versions; it was only thanks to the help of a certain creative consultant that got solved (thanks, John)… The challenge was to paint inside the lines but still deliver something with originality.
So what did all this leave me with? In the end, Air the novel isn't 'Air' the TV episodes, and I'm happy that it isn't. After all, what would be the point of reading a book that slavishly follows every tiny element of the TV stories? What the novelization brings is what made me read novelizations as a kid – an internal viewpoint for the characters that explores them in a way that TV just can't do, a seamless story experience that broadens out the scope of the narrative, and a chance to see the bits of plot that were cut for time.
The latter is the kind of thing that DVD extras bring us now, and in no small part I imagine that's why then novelization is something of a dying art; but back in the day the book of the film was the only place where you saw that kinda thing, like, say, Alan Dean Foster's tense adaptation of Alien with the chilling cocoon scene still in place. So I put back in Rush's monologue about the origins of the starship Destiny and the confrontation between him and Jack O'Neill; but I also added new stuff and expanded out what was already there, lengthening scenes and deepening motivations.
There's a perception that tie-ins are bereft of originality, that they're a straight-jacket for creativity, and a haunt of lazy writers, but that kind of commentary largely comes from people who don't read them; generally, from sniffy lit-snobs who complain that tie-ins are stealing all the shelf space in stores and think that all other media are barren artistic wastelands.
In a larger sense, writing a tie-in is no different from the work of TV scriptwriters working on a series that they didn't create; and when you think about it, writers who adapt a book into a movie are eligible for an Academy Award, while writers who adapt a movie into a book (which requires considerably more writing) are often labeled as hacks.
But the fact is, a great part of telling a tale in one of these fictional worlds is that a writer actually has to work harder under these constraints, and that challenge can inspire you not only tell a tale that fits the texture of the world you're writing in, but also to bring your own unique authorial voice to bear on it. Plus, you get to play with cool stuff, like Stargates.
Air: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Powell's
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26 Comments on "The Big Idea: James Swallow"
Quick note to folks:
This will not be the appropriate thread to discuss Stargate: Universe the TV show — there are other places on the site to do that. Use those and keep this thread focused on the book, please. Thanks.
Andrew Liptak
It's good to see more authors reinforcing Tie-in writers, or tie-ins themselves (in addition to their writers). There's some truly horrendous ones out there, but there are a lot of really good ones as well. I know author Karen Traviss has talked about this subject at length.
It's certainly just as creative, playing with someone else's universe – you have to play by their rules and make things fit just right. I think that I actually have Mr. Swallow's Butterfly Effect novelization – the book was a bit better than the film, simply because it explained more.
John – would you ever write such a book, if given the chance?
Marshall Ryan Maresca
Never been a sci-fi lit snob. I think the work done by novelization & tie-in authors is usually quite excellent. For example, I really enjoyed James Swallow's recent Trek novel "Synthesis". And I can imagine that it is hard work, and its a shame that many readers would thumb their nose at it.
Andrew Liptak:
In theory I have no objection to doing one. I've turned down offers because it wasn't the right project for me and/or I had other projects I was working on. My schedule for the near future is pretty full also.
and the serpent swallows it's tail…
I'm definitely not in a position to crap on novelizations, seeing as I read through the entire run of Robotech novels (DON'T JUDGE ME!) when I was unable to find any of the tv series past episode 5 for sale (this was in the early 90-ish ear. Novelizations provide a good platform for a competent writer to expand on ideas, conversations and relationships that might have been restricted to a time limit on TV or in the Movie.
This is especially true if the writer has a compelling vision for the universe that maybe goes beyond what is evident from the source material. Some of those Warhammer 40k books that we all chuckle at when we see them at borders are surprisingly rich for what they are.
Some of them turn out to be little more than fan fiction, or mary-sues, but some of them are worth it.
I don't have a problem with novelizations, per se. If it's a show or movie I like, I'll read the book if it's any good.
For me the novelization of V was stellar, by A.C. Crispin, a stellar piece of SF that also happened to be a good show. I still point people toward the original V novelization. It's that good.
B. Durbin
A novelization is hard, because you have to put in motivations and scenes that may or may not be evident in the shooting (which you don't get to see anyway.) And to do it for a series that is continuing on— well, that's not easy, either. If you get something "wrong" the fans may never forgive you.
I've read some good novelizations in my time, though I do largely avoid them. Some things play better in one format or another. But I applaud anyone who can make a visual format work in a literary format.
Lyle Blake Smythers
It's worth noting, incredible as it may seem, that one of Isaac Asimov's novels was a novelization. FANTASTIC VOYAGE was a novelization of a screenplay by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Jerome Bixby and Otto somebody-or-other. Presumably Asimov wanted to flesh out (no pun intended) or correct what they had written. Or simply have fun. Heaven knows he always had plenty of ideas of his own. Anyway, there are still people today who will try to tell you that the movie was based on an Asimov novel, when in reality …
Well, now I've got a specific book to ask for as a stocking stuffer!
Just as with any piece of writing, good stuff is good stuff, and if it helps expand the story and characters, I think it's well worth the time to read.
There is a review of James Swallow's novelization here: http://unreality-sf.net/reviews/stargate/air.html
crayonbaby
Novelizations must be so difficult to write. I didn't know how difficult until James Swallow described the process. I've read good and bad tie-ins. I must put this on my list to read.
Anon by Contract
This was a very helpful article to read. I just got contracted with my first novelization assignment, and I can use all the advice I can get about how it's done. Frankly, I'm not that familiar with the medium. Now I know what book to run out and buy to do a compare/contrast.
Miscellaneous Steve
IIRC Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey is a novelization based on the screenplay he wrote with Stanley Kubrick.
MWStover
"writers who adapt a book into a movie are eligible for an Academy Award, while writers who adapt a movie into a book (which requires considerably more writing) are often labeled as hacks."
It's worth noting, however, that many of us ARE hacks.
So there you go.
Matthew, if you're a hack, we need more hacks.
As someone who grew up reading Star Trek novels, I've never understood why it's so looked down upon to read media tie-ins. There's a lot of good stuff in them.
Also, I'll look for Air. :) The actual show hasn't caught my interest well enough for me to keep watching it, but I did see the first three episodes, and it'll be fun to compare.
A novelization of a favorite show is a neat bit of luxury. Free of that 42-minute limit, an author can really delve into the details of a story and flesh out scenes.
Neat to read about the process and the challenges. Thanks for posting this.
mythusmage
John, since you did a "The Big Idea" on a novelization, how about a "The Big Idea" on a TV show. The series "Flash Forward" for instance. The premise for that show and the implications of it just fascinate me.
No. TV shows get enough attention. I want to give attention to books.
Dirty Wizard Hunter
I remember reading Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye in the early 80s. Movies and action figures weren't enough. When my cat ate the Millennium Falcon, I needed another way into the Star Wars universe. So I found portals tucked away in the folds of a weathered paperback. Before Splinter I'd never thought of such books. It was this book that turned me on to the Star Trek books, which in turn led me to Scalzi's SGU decades later. Time is weird. I enjoyed The Butterfly Effect. I'll check your book out next time around.
This book may be available in the UK before we have a chance to see the TV series. Would we lose anything by reading the book first?
I tend to steer away from novelizations. Sometimes, however, they're brilliant.
How often do you see a movie based on a book and say that the book was better? Most of the time, right? Sometimes the movie is better, but that's rare.
A movie or TV show has a block of time in which to convey a story and has to keep it entertaining. A book has flexibility in that regard. Keep it entertaining, sure, but the book can convey so much that can't be illustrated successfully.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy works best as text or audio because so much of what makes it work is the phrasing and explanations. The movie lost
Keeping the original storyteller is involved in the conversion is extremely valuable. I liked the Red Dwarf book "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers" more than the series (and I loved the series) because the two who wrote the show also wrote the book. It was their story and they were able to introduce a lot of material that never made it to screen.
Sometimes it's just having the right author. While they're series related instead of actual novelizations, I have a bunch of the Star Trek:TNG books. When picking out my favorites I found that Peter David had written all but one of them.
Then you get those novelizations that you're sure were written by the publisher's nephew or are based on "Ernest Goes To…" level movies. So it all depends.
Java Monster
Some of my favorite writers have written tie-ins: Sherwood Smith, Alan Dean Foster, Diane Duane (I think she wrote some kick-butt Star Trek), the ones mentioned already on this thread, and Vonda MacIntire. I'm sure there are more. Translating what is on a script, or directly from film, is not easy; especially to satisfy the fans of that particular movie/TV show.
Um, that "good luck" did not come out the way I meant it to come out. Good fortune and success to you with translation and sales.
Cuper MacLeod
I am a voracious reader of science-fiction, and in addition to "real" SF, I've read a lot of novelizations and tie-ins. Like anything else, some are quite good and some are quite bad. However, some really tremendous authors have done this kind of work. Joe Haldeman, who wrote The Forever War (and who has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards), wrote two Star Trek novels!
What I like most about novelizations is the insight it gives to earlier drafts of screenplays. From what I understand, the authors rarely work from a final shooting script, since the book and the movie are generally timed for release at the same time. The novels for Star Treks 2-4 by Vonda N. McIntyre fill in a lot of the gaps. The novels that followed the StarGate story in a totally different direction from SG-1 provide entertaining stories as well as a fascinating "what if?" scenario.
One of the craziest, though, has got to be the novelization of Gremlins. That movie is a favorite from my childhood, but the book goes in some strange directions. Who knew that Gizmo was genetically engineered by an alien scientist from another planet?
ChrisB
Novelisations that come out early do have problems. I can remember years ago looking at the novelisation of Mad Max II (AKA the Road Warrior) and finding that it had a completely different ending from the film; they'd presumably made an abrupt change after delivering the author's copy of the script.


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Hans Harbeck (geboren am 15. Dezember 1887 in Eckernförde; gestorben am 18. Mai 1968 in Hamburg) war ein deutscher Lyriker, Essayist und Kabarettist.

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Harbeck studierte ab 1906 Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte in Göttingen, wo er 1907 zusammen mit Knud Ahlborn, einem Freund aus dem Hamburger Wanderverein, die Studentenverbindung Deutsche Akademische Freischar begründete, dann in München und in Kiel, wo er 1910 mit einer Arbeit über den Maler Melchior Lorichs promovierte.

Ab 1917 begann Harbeck expressionistische Lyrik zu schreiben. 1918 wurde er Dramaturg und Schauspieler an den Hamburger Kammerspielen. 1919 erschien ein erster Gedichtband (Revolution) und ab 1922 arbeitete er als freier Schriftsteller.
Außerdem trat er als Kabarettist und Conférencier auf, unter anderem in dem literarischen Kabarett Die sieben Stichlinge im Curiohaus.

1934 erteilten die Nationalsozialisten ihm Arbeitsverbot, 1944 wurde er verhaftet und kam bis 1945 in "Schutzhaft". Die Zeit in Gefangenschaft reflektierte er 1946 in dem Gedichtband Verse aus dem Gefängnis.
Im gleichen Jahr gründete er zusammen mit Carl Bay und Dirks Paulun in Hamburg das noch heute bestehende literarische Kabarett Die Wendeltreppe, in dem er auch regelmäßig auftrat, und zu dem auch bald der noch wenig bekannte Heinz Erhardt stieß.

Harbeck war ein produktiver Autor zahlreicher Gedichtbände, meist heiteren Inhalts, häufig mit Anklängen an Christian Morgenstern und Joachim Ringelnatz, mit dem er befreundet war. Neben seinen lyrischen Werken verfasste er auch Reimlexika, Reiseführer und Gebrauchsliteratur wie Firmen- und Vereinschroniken und er war viele Jahre lang Herausgeber des Almanachs des Hamburger Künstlerfestes. Außerdem übersetzte er Dickens und Maupassant und war Herausgeber der Schriften von Carl Wolff und Gustav Sack.

Harbeck starb 1968 mit 81 Jahren in Hamburg. Sein Nachlass befindet sich in der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg.

Hans Harbeck wurde auf dem Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg im Planquadrat Q 10 südlich der Kapelle 1 beigesetzt.

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 Melchior Lorichs. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Hamburg 1911.
 Revolution. Gedichte. Dresden 1919.
 Der Vorhang. Sonette. Hamburg 1920.
 Rund um den Hund. Kunterbunte Verse. Hamburg 1921.
 Die Jungfrau. Neue Sonette. Hamburg 1923.
 Sonette an Sonja. Hamburg 1924.
 Die Kaiserin von Neufundland. Drei Akte nach Wedekinds gleichnamiger Pantomime. Frankfurt am Main 1926.
 Das Buch von Hamburg. Mit Original-Zeichnungen von Eugen Denzel, Hans Leip, Kurt Löwengard und Gabriele von Lüpwitz. Reihe Was nicht im "Baedeker" steht. Bd. 8. München 1930. Nachdruck Leipzig 1997.
 Tumult im Tintenfaß. Hamburg 1930.
 Ein Autor fährt Auto. Hamburg 1933.
 Die Druckerei Kayser. 1833–1933. Versuch einer Chronik. Hamburg 1933.
 Der Kunstgewerbe-Verein zu Hamburg. 1886–1936. Ein Bericht. Hamburg 1936.
 Glückseliges Flötenspiel. Gedichte. Leipzig 1938.
 Verse aus dem Gefängnis. Hamburg 1946.
 Glück der Freiheit. Gedichte. Hamburg 1947.
 Leichtes Gepäck. Anekdoten, Schwänke und Kuriosa. Hamburg 1947.
 William Wilberforce, der Befreier der Sklaven. Hamburg 1948.
 Hamburger Lockbuch. 50 Jahre Hamburger Fremdenverkehr. Hamburg 1949.
 Balduin, der Sportler. Gedichte. Gezeichnet von Wolfgang Hicks. Wien & München 1953.
 Flitzbogen und Flöte. Heitere Verse. Hamburg 1953.
 Reim dich oder ich fress dich. Neues deutsches Reimlexikon. Auf Anregung und unter Mitarbeit von Georg Roos. München 1953.
 Gut gereimt ist halb gewonnen. Neues deutsches Reimlexikon. Heidenheim 1956.
 Herz im Muschelkalk. In memoriam Joachim Ringelnatz. Hamburg 1961.
 Hamburg, so wie es war. Hamburg 1966.
 Schauspieler, gezaust und gezeichnet. Mit Zeichnungen von Adolf Oehlen. Erinnerungen. Düsseldorf 1966.

als Übersetzer:
 Charles Dickens: Das Heimchen am Herde. Ein Hausmärchen. Illustrationen von Hans Wingenbach. Hamburg 1948.
 Guy de Maupassant: Yvette. Hamburg 1948.

als Herausgeber:
 Carl Wolff: Niederschläge. Verse von Wolken, Wachsbohnen und eitlen Wünschen. Aus dem Nachlaß hrsg. von Hans Harbeck. Leipzig 1938.
 Gustav Sack: Gustav Sack. Eine Einführung in sein Werk und eine Auswahl. Reihe Verschollene und Vergessene. Wiesbaden 1958.

Literatur
 Erich Lüth: Zur Erinnerung an Hans Harbeck. In: Jahrbuch Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Hamburg 1968, S. 355–357.
 Walter Pape: Harbeck, Hans. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Hrsg.): Killy Literaturlexikon. Autoren und Werke des deutschsprachigen Kulturraumes. 2., vollst. überarb. Aufl. de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, Bd. 5, S. 1.
 Paul Raabe: Die Autoren und Bücher des literarischen Expressionismus. Stuttgart 1985, S. 185–187. Mit Bibliographie.

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The EoI focuses on the improvements to public spaces and pedestrian and cycle movements, as well as securing a long-term solution for the Essoldo cinema and plans for a mix-used development on Lacy Street. This would open up access to the Bridgewater Canal and combines retail shops with town centre accommodation, including affordable housing.
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What about bringing a supermarket back to replace Tesco like a Morrisons that would be very useful. We also need a place to have lunch a nice tearoom would be lovely. Urmston is buzzing with new eateries while Stretford only has a Costa.It's like a ghost town stretford it needs bringing back to life.


Our farmer's market season starts on May 20th. I love going to the market and setting out samples of everything I have. I wish I could put up a secret camera to capture the face of people who come to my table with a friend who wants a sample. When asked if they'd like to taste also, they shake their head vigorously and scrunch up their mouth in that "I can't stand that stuff" kind of way. Usually because they've had goat cheese in the past and, as much of the mass produced products are, it was not up to the quality of something handmade with care and love. I promise them my cheese is not 'goaty'.
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Coming off of a week trip to Vienna and Munich last week, I'm still on such a high from all of the traveling we had done. It was such a whirl wind and because we walked everywhere, I wanted to carry something that would be easy to pack, durable and also cute ( duh! ) .
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Recently, people started observing that Facebook might be losing its youthful edge: there had been surveys, analysts' reports, and even a disclosure from the company which suggested that young people wanted to spend their time elsewhere. When I first heard this, I reacted with a weird defensiveness. This seemed like a bafflingly personal response, even to me, until I realized that all the commentary was making me feel old.
I started using Facebook in 2004, the year that Mark Zuckerberg founded it. I was in college back then, at Stanford, where the site launched early. Its features were, by today's standards, clunky and retrograde: the logo was an eerie image of a man's shadowed face; the site announced itself, in type along the bottom of the screen, as a "Mark Zuckerberg production." And yet being on Facebook was, for a little while, like knowing about a band that few others had discovered. It was cool.
Next month, Facebook will have existed for ten years. The site itself has grown up, too: it lost the weird logo and the Zuckerberg shout-out; it added photo albums, the news feed, better privacy settings, and, of course, advertisements; and it is no longer cool—a status that has been passed on to upstarts like Snapchat (which Facebook has tried to acquire) and Instagram (which it did acquire).
Zuckerberg, who launched the site from his college dorm room, is now a married homeowner. I am married, too, though not a homeowner. Sometimes I idly browse houses on Redfin and mark my favorites—a weird hobby of mine. My Redfin account is linked to my Facebook account, and the site dutifully takes note of my choices. If one day my husband and I start actively shopping for a house—which we surely will—Facebook will know more about our tastes than any human being could. What's more, the site can probably tell, perhaps creepily, that we might already be in the market for a house, on some level, even though we see ourselves as nothing more than casual lurkers at open houses and on real-estate Web sites.
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